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OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 State Trackers For Gallium3D

05-15-2009, 01:30 PM

Phoronix: OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 State Trackers For Gallium3D

Just minutes after announcing Mesa 7.5 Release Candidate 2, Brian Paul has announced that he is in the process of pushing out Gallium3D state trackers for OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0. These two new state trackers for this forthcoming Linux graphics architecture are coming just two weeks after an OpenVG state tracker was released for accelerating this other Khronos API.The OpenGL ES 1.1 and ES 2.0 state trackers each provide a subset of Mesa plus other ES-specific bits...

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According to Brian's announcement the GL ES state tracker was a subset of the existing Mesa code with some additional ES-specific bits added, so the effort would not really be comparable to writing a new tracker (like D3D9) from scratch.

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And for a driver that actually makes use of any of these shiny state trackers. :P

It would be interesting if Phoronix would do an article with an overview of the status of the drivers, and what kind of plans/estimations the developers of the different drivers (intel/ati/nouveau/via) have for gallium support.